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It would be interesting to see if the same system could be implemented for English. Say, make a text renderer that groups common sequences of 2-to-4 letters in
by maxander 10y ago
It would be interesting to see if the same system could be implemented for English. Say, make a text renderer that groups common sequences of 2-to-4 letters into one distinct (but still immediately legible) glyph; the set of available glyphs would remain constant. With practice, readers' brains might learn the glyphs as a "shortcut" to take in these sets of letters- almost like a very basic compression scheme programmed into your reading-comprehension neurons.
- ISL 10y agoI'm pretty sure I read, write, and type words as glyphs. When I read the word 'word', I don't read 'w'-'o'-'r'-'d'.... 'word'! Alternatively, when skiing in Japan, having only learned katakana on the plane-ride, it was less than a week before I reflexively processed 'スキー' as 'ski' instead of sounding out su-ki in my head.
- sand500 10y agoYep having taken Japanese in college, after a while you don't read letters, you read words. Basically we recognize what a word is based on the shape of the word.
- squimmy 10y agoWhat you're describing sounds a lot like shorthand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shorthand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shorthand